Why I wrote The Water’s Edge

Funnily enough, it started life as an exam! I did a degree in Drama at UEA and one of the final exam papers involved being given a title, writing a performance piece and showing it to some examiners (all in the same afternoon). In our second year, we had a practice paper and one of the titles was Returning. I wrote a monologue which I performed to the rest of the class, based on the myth of Persephone. I played Persephone at the end of a welcome home party. She was upset because she didn’t really want to come back and she missed Hades. After that, I decided I would write a modern version of the Persephone myth (although this eventually changed). I went through lots of twists and turns with it before going back to UEA to do the MA in Creative Writing. So even though I had the original idea ten years ago, it only really took me a year and a bit to write the finished novel.

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